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carrylex@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.dev ·
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Roses are red, violets are blue, everyone is using IPv6, why aren't you?

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Roses are red, violets are blue, everyone is using IPv6, why aren't you?

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carrylex@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.dev ·
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Context:

People have been asking for IPv6 Support on GitHub since years (probably a decade by now)

… and someone even got so annoyed that they decided to setup a dedicated website for checking this: https://isgithubipv6.live/

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    Imho

    Ipv4 and peak oil are similar.

    We’re constantly running out; but every fes years, we figure out a new way to extract more oil/make do with the addresses we currently have.

    Someone sells of their underused block, or more people move to the services with excess IP addresses if they need one.

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      We’re constantly running out; but every fes years, we figure out a new way to extract more oil/make do with the addresses we currently have.

      It’s a supply and demand situation. We run out of things not only when they are physically exhausted, but also when it’s not economically viable to find ways to make more. But when demand increases enough, it will eventually become economically viable again.

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        critical difference here was also the consumption of oil. It’s gone down significantly since then as processes have moved to other materials and more efficient methods of manufacturing,

        Do you have a source for that? Because this seems to suggest fossil fuel and oil demand might of roughly plateaued the last few years, the dip looks pretty welly correlated to Covid.

        IPv4 addresses are a static pool, yes. But we’re continually using them more efficiently, the same as Oil. The difference being that Oil has a limit on the amount of energy contained in its chemical bonds, but you could quite happily host 1,000 or 10,000 websites on a single server.

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            And we’re also talking on a more local scale here, so this would be more centric around a single country, or north america specifically.

            North America is an interesting example here, because North America HIT peak oil once, way back in the 80’s, and it was only with the invention of Fracking that it came back.

            Yeah but idk about this one. Perhaps at the scale of CDNs and proxy distribution,

            Once upon a time people debated if virtual hosts were best practice or if that would affect their SEO. We’ve definitely progressed since then, both to conserve IP addresses, but mainly because DDOS prevention is best done centralised (Looking at you Cloudflare).

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